As researchers we must open our hearts and minds to participating in the evolving world of social media and how that participation can help us immensely with our own genealogical research.

As a sidenote, our Genealogy Program for January 10, 2012 is titled “Social Networking for Genealogy: Family Trees, FaceBook, Blogs and More”. Our upcoming program and the Wall Street Journal article are trying to raise the level of attention being placed on Social Media and Genealogy.

Take a look at the article from the above link. I think it will open your eyes to aspects of Social Media and the connection to genealogy if you are not familiar with the growth of Social Media like Wikis, Facebook, Google +. The article also notes many websites of note for you to consider in your genealogy research.

A big “Thank You” to Bruce H. for making me aware of this nice article.